Today's News

THURSDAY, Sept. 27
Women’s Group. The women’s group will be reading Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg. The group will meet Thursday, Sept. 27 at 6 p.m. at the Cynthiana-Harrison County Public Library Annex. Refreshments will be served the night of discussion.
FRIDAY, Sept. 28
Bean Soup Supper will be held Friday, Sept. 28 from 5-9 p.m. at Cynthiana Christian Church. Cost of the meal will be $6 and includes bean soup, country ham and a drink.

There are many things that come together that allow plants to thrive.
When it comes to plants native to our area, we are not required to go to great extremes to provide the ideal environment.
An ideal environment, however, means a great many different things depending on what kind of plant you are.
This time of the year we can do a couple of things for some favorite flowering plants.

The farm field day in Harrison County will be held at the farm of Mike and Shelley Meyer on Monday, Oct. 8 at 5 p.m. The farm is located on Highway 32 or Connersville Pike, four and one-half miles from Highway 27.
The Meyer’s have a beef production farm with corn, hay and tobacco production as well. The farm is going through some major changes at the present time and producers will get to see many of the improvements which will aid in future operations.

With the start of fall comes the risk of cyanide poisoing in ruminants. Cyanide, prussic acid, hydrogen cyanide or hydrocyanic acid poisoning are all terms describing the same condition. A number of common plants, including sudangrass, johnsongrass, sorghums and sorghum-sudangrass hybrids contain cyanogenic glycosides in the outer cells of the plant. Further inside the leaf tissue are the enzymes needed to convert these compounds to the cyanide poison.

By: Dr. Don R. Stephens, M.D.
Senator R.J. Palmer recently defended passage of House Bill 1-commonly referred to as the “Pill Mill Bill” - and said the law contained “common sense” requirements for physicians who prescribe certain controlled substances. Despite his attempts at defending the bill, however, every physician, medical provider, medical facility and patient knows the law’s mandates have created unnecessary burdens and cost that clearly need to be corrected.

As a way of sparking some potential interesting letters to the editor, I would like to offer up the conversation regarding the current situation in the NFL.
Referees!!!
Love them or hate them, they are just as much part of any game played as the athletes are.
Take referees out of a game and we would be stuck watching a variation of the ultimate fighter in most cases... which could prove to be interesting in some cases.

After Bass Webb withdrew his withdrawal of a guilty plea Wednesday in Pendleton County, the judge sentenced him to 50 years in prison.
The sentence will be tacked on to a 15-year sentence already issued on Fayette County charges for 65 years.
Webb appeared in Pendleton County Circuit Court with Judge Jay Delaney presiding Wednesday afternoon for a ruling on Webb’s Aug. 15 motion to withdraw his July 18 guilty plea to the murder of Bryia Runiewicz.

A criminal complaint is being pursued by the Cynthiana Police Department and Harrison County Animal Control against a couple who allegedly abandoned at least one dog leaving it to starve.
Sgt. Wilbur Gross along with Harrison County Animal Control officer Paul Colson were called to a 203 W. Penn St. residence, which had been the former residence of Donna and Edward Golden.
Gross said the dog was severely underweight and covered in fleas.
Colson said the dog, believed to be a border collie mix, was at least 50 pounds underweight, weighing only 33 pounds.